Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[George]

  LOL yes but check out my signature- Brahms' chamber music "rocked" my world last month, I just had to pay tribute to him  0:)!

  marvin

Which works?

I love the solo piano stuff. Lupu is great there.

[ChamberNut]

Welcome back George!     Very happy to see you back.  0:)

[marvinbrown]

Which works?

I love the solo piano stuff. Lupu is great there.

 First and foremost the string sextets  0:), then you have the clarinet (viola) sonatas, the string quartets, the piano quartets  0:) absolute heaven.  We had a brief discussion with Que, chambernut and other members and it was decided that Brahms' chamber music is the best kept secret in the classical music repertoire- no argument here I tell you!

[George]

Welcome back George!     Very happy to see you back.  0:)

Thanks bro. 

[Daverz]

The Porgy & Bess is on sale at MDT.  The rest is from Amazon.  That last is "Bach Masterpieces" -- Brandenbergs, Overtures, and concertos -- recorded by Winschermann et al. on Laserlight.

[SonicMan46]

Thanks!   It was nice wandering around for awhile, but great to be back. 

Hello George - welcome back! And hope you'll be around for a long time - Dave 

[Bu]

[George]

Hello George - welcome back! And hope you'll be around for a long time - Dave 

Thanks buddy! 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Interesting. I see the Fourth is in a different twofer, though, coupled with the Tennstedt renditions of Ein deutsches Requiem and Schicksalslied.

Yes, not sure why EMI broke up that set (Jochum/LPO). Seems more logical to put the fourth symphony in with the other three. But the major labels are nothing if not quirky.

[karlhenning]

Yes, not sure why EMI broke up that set (Jochum/LPO). Seems more logical to put the fourth symphony in with the other three. But the major labels are nothing if not quirky.

They want to sell two two-fers, rather than just the one (if all four symphonies were available on a single two-fer).

[Dancing Divertimentian]

They want to sell two two-fers, rather than just the one (if all four symphonies were available on a single two-fer).

They must think I'm made of money.

[karlhenning]

They must think I'm made of money.

Hey, they didn't ask me! 

[Brian]

Geeeeeoooooooorrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! 

Which works?

I love the solo piano stuff. Lupu is great there.

Good, that's what I just got. 

[Bogey]

Just not enough Monteverdi being posted these days.  Your thoughts when you have chance Bu, as Parrott is hit or miss with me.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Geeeeeoooooooorrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Hmm...where's my Ultimate Super Secret Decoder Ring®.....

.....ah, so who's this Geoffrey fella?



(Welcome back, G-man!)

[Daverz]

CDs, CDs, cheap, cheap, cheap.  Couldn't pass up some Naxos at $4 each from tower.com.  A good site for bargain hunting.




The Creston CD includes the Symphony No. 4.  The live Mackerras Beethoven cycle is on sale at MDT.

[Brian]

The Creston CD includes the Symphony No. 4.  The live Mackerras Beethoven cycle is on sale at MDT.

Whoa! Am I hallucinating or is that Beethoven cycle only about US $25 on MDT? What's the catch? It's available over here for three times that.

[Daverz]

Whoa! Am I hallucinating or is that Beethoven cycle only about US $25 on MDT? What's the catch? It's available over here for three times that.

With shipping it came out to less than $24.  The US importer is Harmonia Mundi.  Note that it's a BBC recording, so Hyperion doesn't need to recoup much in production costs.

[The new erato]

It was available cheaply (14 GBP) for quite some time on europadisc.co.uk. I think maybe today is the last day of the Europadisc offer (I bought it there and think I posted on it here).

[jlaurson]

Josquin Desprez - A Sei Voci - Bernard Fabre-Garrus - naive (6cd box)
Yes, I'm a complete sucker. And I love exploring this sort of music in greater depth... and I had very little Desprez in my collection. So thanks to all the recommendations of it from you: this set just arrived 10 minutes ago in the mail. Last disc of 2008.
I couldn't find it on Amazon.com at all -- on Amazon.de it's a tad expensive -- but from France (23 Euro) and from the UK (25 Pound Sterlin) it's a steal. I, for one, could not resist.



Bernard Haitink KBE (hon), CH - Mahler 6th - CSO reSOUND (SACD) 

I loved Haitink's Bruckner 7th with the CSO and on that label... I have the DSCH 4th (but need to listen to it properly) and I quite cherish the Mahler 3rd.... so I just had to ask for BH's Mahler. Generally, Haitink's Mahler-style would not make him an obvious choice for my preferences with the 6th, but then I thought Gergiev would, and he didn't, at all. Aside, Haitink takes the Scherzo second which perks my ears. Does this indicate a fire&brimstone 6th? Not necessarily: Barbirolli is one such interpretation and he recorded the Scherzo third -- but I have high hopes all the same.